Go-faster tweak for Firefox

...and btw, how do I 'right-click' with an iBook mousePad?

[luckychucky]

Hey, I found this really cool little FireFox tweak.
But please, I need someone to do me a favor and tell me:
How do I "right-click" with an iBook laptop?

Here you go. Speed up yer FireFox:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Enabling pipelining in Firefox can speed up complex page retrievals, as you note, but it can also break Flash. This is a Macromedia thing not a Firefox thing but that’s why the app defaults to pipelining disabled.

[BwanaZulia]

Control + Click = Right click

Or pick up one of the hundreds of USB two button mice, plug it in and click away.

BZ

[luckychucky]

Thx., BZ.

I regret to say, Control+Click is not doing anything in this scenario; it's not working.

[luckychucky]

D'oh!
Stupid me, I was trying Command+Click, and Option+Click...

Control+Click works like a charm.